Clothes-pin



(No Model.)

J. W. 000K. CLOTHES PIN.

No. 506,980. Patented Oct. 17,1893.

WITNESSES. INVENTOI? l S J57? ZW C007 7 By X ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

JOHN WESLEY COOK, OF HARRISBURG, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO CHARLES SCOTT,OF WOODBURN, OREGON.

CLOTH ES-PIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 506,980, dated October17, 1893.

Application filed June 1'7, 1893.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN WESLEY 000K, of Harrisburg, in the county ofLinn and State of Oregon, have invented a new and useful Improvement inClothes-Pins, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improved clothes pin and is preferably constructed ofa single piece of wire, (usually galvanized to prevent rusting,)although if desired the pin can be made of other material, and may becast, or made in any suitable manner; the object of my invention beingto provide an exceedingly cheap and simple pin, which can be so usedupon a clothes line in connection with a pulling or drawing cord that anumber of articles can be stretched along a line without the operatormoving from his or her position at the end of the line.

Another object is to so construct the pin that it can be readilyattached to and detached from the line without interfering with theother pins upon the line.

With these objects in view my invention consists in a pin formed bybending a piece of wire about midway its length providing a spring clasporclasps to hold the clothes, then twisting and bending the wire toprovide two oppositely disposed eyes for the attachment of the drawingcord, and then curving and lapping the ends to provide an opensupporting eye.

My invention consists also in certain novelties and details ofconstruction, all of which will be fully described hereinafter andpointed out in the claims.

In the drawings forming a part of this specificationFigure 1 is aperspective view of my improved pin. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same.

In constructing my improved clothes pin I preferably use a single pieceof wire which is bent about midway its ends to produce the spring claspsor loops 1, there being three such loops, one vertical or depending, andtwo horizontal or side clasps, the horizontal olasps being arranged uponopposite sides of the vertical clasp as clearly shown. The wire is thentwisted as shown at 2 and then bent Serial No. 477,925. (No model.)

to provide the eyes 3, 3, there being two such eyes, one upon each sideof the twisted portion 2, and these eyes are also in approximately thesame plane, which is at right angles to the planes of the spring claspsor loop 1. After forming the eyes 33, the ends of the wire are twistedagain at 4:, and are then curved around in the form of a circle toprovide a bearing or supporting eye 5, the curved ends lapping eachotherin opposite directions to provide a substantial support or bearingbut these ends are also far enough apart from each other to permit thesupporting line or wire to be passed between the same. By thisconstruction the pin can be Very quickly and easily attached to ordetached from the line, and to attach it to the line it is onlynecessary to pass the line between the lapped ends and then turn the pinat right angles. To detach the pin the operation is simply reversed.

In operation, a line 6 is stretched in any suitable manner. Any numberof my improved pins are then quickly attached to the line, and to anyparticular pin or pins I connect the opposite ends of a pulling ordrawing cord 7 and it is for the attachment of the ends of this cordthat I provide the two eyes 3-3. The garment to be suspended is pressedinto one of the spring clasps orloops and when a line of clothes is tobe supported I usually insert one part of the clothes in the side claspon one pin and another portion of the clothes in the side clasp of thenext adjacent pin. In this manner, I can connect an entire line ofclothes and inasmuch as the drawing cord is connected to one or more ofthe pins, the clothes can be moved upon the line'from side to sidewithout necessitating an operator walking along the'line. By having twoeyes 33 each pin can be connected with the drawing cord and it will thenbe unnecessary to connect them by means of the clothes.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. As an improved article of manufacture, a clothes pin formed of asingle piece of wire and comprising the loops 1, for holding theclothes, the twist 2, the oppositely disposed eyes 3, 3, adapted toreceive the drawing cord, oppositelydisposedeyes and the holdingloops,and the oppositely curved and lapping ends and the pulling cordsattached to the said 5, 5, to permit the attachment and detacheyessubstantially as shown and described. ment of the pin from the linesubstantially 5 as shown and described. Witnesses:

2. In combination, a clothes line, a piuar- H. J. BIGGER, ranged thereonsaid pin having lapped-ends, TILMON FORD.

JOHN WESLEY COOK.

